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| A sparse, minimalist and entirely textual poster for Woody Allen's Interiors |
A New York family with a mentally unstable mother and three adult daughters. The matriarch's husband, the father, requests a temporary separation, which eats through the mother. Meanwhile the daughters deal with each their own issues.
Interiors is written and directed by New-Yorker master filmmaker Woody Allen (What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)), whose 8th feature it is.
Good performances outline this dark film, - both thematically and literally speaking, although the central theme is elusive. Allen's writing is, as usual, solid, smart and adroitly carried out; the color choices and production design speaks volumes as to the family's problems.
This feels like Allen 'doing Bergman', (Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman that is), one feels, and being extraordinarily serious. It is well done, but it doesn't leap from the screen, so to speak, but rather may feel a bit sterile. Interiors is good nevertheless.
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Celebrity (1998) or, Stars in New York
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Annie Hall (1977) or, My Relationship with Alvie Singer
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Casino Royale (1967) - The packed spy spoof frontrunner, a film very much of its time (as actor)
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 3.1 mil. $
Box office: In excess of 10.4 mil. $ (North America alone)
= Uncertain but likely a big hit (projected return of 4.64 times its cost)
[Interiors premiered 2 August (New York) and runs 92 minutes. Shooting took place from October 1977 - January 1978 in New York. The film grossed 10.4 mil. $ in North America, and gross numbers from its foreign markets are regrettably not reported. It sold 41,636 tickets in the small market Denmark, coming to approximately 133k $. A conservatively projected foreign gross of 4 mil. $ would result in a 14.4 mil. $ world gross, which would rank the film a big hit. It was nominated for 5 Oscars, winning none: It lost Best Actress (Geraldine Page (Loving (1983, TV-series))) to Jane Fonda in Coming Home; Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton (Passed Away (1992))) to Maggie Smith in California Suite; Art Direction - Set Decoration to Heaven Can Wait; Director to Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter and Original Screenplay to Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones for Coming Home. It won 1/2 BAFTA awards, was nominated for 4 Golden Globes and won a National Board of Review award, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave the film a 4/4 star review, translating to 2 notches over this one. Allen returned with Manhattan (1979). Page returned in Harry's War (1981); Stapleton in The Runner Stumbles (1979). Interiors is fresh at 78 % with a 6.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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